How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business. The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself.

I came on board on Captricity at the beginning of September and I got to learn about a lot of these first hand. I decided that making a list of these might help other people not run their own company.

Captricity isn’t endorsing these products in any way, nor am I. These are just examples of various easily-available products that now can take away some bit of the pain that you used to feel when running a businesses or trying to improve an existing product; all of these companies have competitors that offer different features, pricing, etc. Your mileage may vary.

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites.